Attendees pose for a photo during the official opening ceremony of ASML Korea’s new Hwaseong Campus in Song-dong, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, on Nov. 12. From left: Bae Jeong-soo, chair of the Hwaseong City ...
China just pushed the semiconductor fight into a new chapter. Inside a sealed compound in Shenzhen, scientists built a prototype EUV lithography machine that Washington has tried to block for years.
ASML is effectively the only player in a key aspect of the semiconductor business. Its business, however, ebbs and flows quite a bit. Well-supported work to build competing solutions is now underway.